Recent Work
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The Effect of US COVID-19 Excess Mortality on Social Security Outlays
The 1.7 million pandemic-era excess deaths that occurred as of January 2023 reduced expected future outlays of the Social Security Administration OASDI program by $205 billion on net.
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The Hidden Cost of Covid-19: Years of Life Lost Among the Young
The focus on deaths affecting mainly the elderly is unfortunate because it likely created a false sense of security among the young.
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Measuring the COVID-19 Mortality Burden in the United States
A team from the USC Schaeffer Center undertook a full assessment of the first year of the pandemic’s mortality burden by measuring years of life lost and accounting for quality-of-life differences, factoring in age, sex, race/ethnicity and comorbidities.
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